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Commons Sitting of 24 July 1979 Series 5 Vol. 971

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. PRIVATE BUSINESS
1. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL (By Order)
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1. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order) 11 words
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2. CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL (By Order) 10 words
4. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Community Homes 358 words
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2. National Health Service (Merseyside) 350 words
cc325-8
3. Regional and Area Health Authorities (Services) 937 words
cc328-30
4. National Insurance Regulations 621 words
cc330-2
5. Hypothermia 866 words
cc332-4
6. Child Benefit 762 words
cc334-5
7. Health Centres 251 words
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8. Supplementary Benefit Payment (Chrysler Employees) 504 words
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9. Blind Persons 309 words
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10. Autistic Children 289 words
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11. Giro Cheques 424 words
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12. Geriatric Services (Wandsworth) 365 words
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13. LADYWOOD 115 words
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14. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 1,749 words
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15. SCOTLAND (CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS) 600 words
cc348-50
16. QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS 515 words
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5. Post Office (Amendment) 3,528 words, 1 division
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6. REGIONAL POLICY 48,305 words, 1 division
cc489-90
7. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 94 words
cc491-526
8. EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION 13,405 words, 1 division
cc527-59
9. UNFAIR DISMISSAL 12,474 words, 1 division
cc559-60
10. SELECT COMMITTEES RELATED TO GOVERNMENT DEPART MENTS 220 words
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11. MEMBERS' INTERESTS 58 words
12. PETITION
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1. Nursery Education 197 words
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13. GLASGOW (POPULATION CHANGES) 3,981 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 24 July 1979 Series 5 Vol. 971

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1. LEICESTERSHIRE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY 154 words
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2. TURNER BEQUEST 75 words
3. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Members' Office Accommodation 106 words
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2. Members' Salaries 54 words
4. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Public Footpaths (Dogs) 98 words
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2. Crimes (Statistics) 195 words
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3. Drunken Driving 89 words
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4. Children of God 66 words
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5. Air Weapons 157 words
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6. Firearms 109 words
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7. Vietnamese Refugees 40 words
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8. Advisory Council on Race Relations 500 words
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9. Detention Centres and Borstals 51 words
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10. Immigration Act 1971 364 words
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11. Attendance Centres 124 words
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12. Departures 53 words
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13. Immigration (Applications for Bail) 161 words
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14. Official Secrets Act 1911 39 words
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15. Illegal Entrants 439 words
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16. Crossbows 109 words
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17. Concessionary Television Licences 77 words
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18. Deportation 943 words
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19. Immigration 84 words
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20. Scientology 88 words
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21. Mr. Anthony Ledger 26 words
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22. Prisoners 461 words
5. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Mobility Allowance 82 words
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2. Mental Health Act 1959 56 words
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3. Wessex Regional Health Authority 71 words
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4. Supplementary Benefits Commission 50 words
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5. Elderly Persons (Pocket Money) 68 words
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6. Hospital Services (Kent) 68 words
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7. Tax Credit Scheme 45 words
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8. Unified Housing Benefit 63 words
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9. Pay Beds 94 words
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10. Dental Treatment (General Anaesthesia) 73 words
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11. Child Benefit 51 words
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12. Maternity Services (Worcestershire) 108 words
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13. Value Added Tax 76 words
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14. Mixed Wards 58 words
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15. Hearing Aids 117 words
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16. Hospital Waiting Lists 119 words
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17. Chiropody 64 words
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18. Salmon Report 98 words
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19. Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham 114 words
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20. Hypothermia 63 words
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21. Expenditure Cuts 110 words
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22. Personal Social Services 102 words
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23. National Health Service (Public Involvement) 181 words
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24. Elderly Persons (Residential Accommodation) 54 words
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25. National Insurance Scheme 99 words
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26. Hospitals (Accident and Emergency Departments) 90 words
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27. Area Health Authorities 66 words
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28. Consultants (Rotherham and Doncaster) 94 words
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29. Pay Beds 264 words
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30. Disabled Persons (Specialised Vehicles) 81 words
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31. Human Tissue (Register of Donors) 94 words
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32. Mrs. M. (Member's Correspondence) 107 words
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33. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS) 332 words
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34. TUC 143 words
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35. PRIME MINISTER (QUESTIONS) 47 words
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36. NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 46 words
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37. SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFIT 81 words
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38. HOGGESTON, BEDS. 27 words
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39. PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH (CAMBRIDGE) 38 words
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40. LORD BELLWIN 28 words
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41. BINGHAM REPORT 99 words
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42. NORTHAMPTON 23 words
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43. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS POLICY 43 words
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44. HONG KONG 61 words
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45. SCIENTOLOGY 80 words
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46. HARDMAN REPORT 42 words
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47. POSTER-FILM COLLECTIVE 51 words
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48. CIVIL JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENTS) 348 words
6. DEFENCE
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1. Low Flying 868 words
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2. Royal Naval Auxiliary Service 418 words
7. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Unemployed Persons 447 words
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2. Industrial Employment (Statistics) 94 words
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3. Unemployment Benefit 95 words
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4. Unfair Dismissal Procedure 215 words
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5. Temporary Employment Programme 249 words
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6. Firms (Number of Employees) 443 words
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7. Unemployment (North-West) 1,507 words
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8. Job Creation 359 words
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9. Tent Manufacturing 113 words
8. ENERGY
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1. Fuel Oil 64 words
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2. Solar Energy Heating 167 words
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3. Central Electricity Generating Board 82 words
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4. Coal Industry Act 1977 87 words
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5. Electricity (Transmission) 224 words
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6. British National Oil Corporation 323 words
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7. National Coal Board 52 words
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8. Oil Consumption 270 words
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9. Electricity Generation 194 words
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10. Windscale (Fire) 460 words
9. TRADE
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1. Insurance Advisory Panel 120 words
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2. Overseas Projects Board 156 words
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3. Prices and Tax (Separate Indication) 75 words
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4. Citizens Advice Bureaux 88 words
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5. China (Air Services Agreement) 117 words
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6. Weight (Small Items) 83 words
10. WALES
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1. Garth Farm, Ynystawe (Gipsy Site) 45 words
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2. Teachers (Pay) 150 words
11. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
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1. Council of Ministers 808 words
12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Hong Kong 802 words
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2. Vietnamese Refugees 31 words
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3. Nuclear Safeguards (Australia) 76 words
13. INDUSTRY
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1. National Giro 145 words
14. Microprocessor Applications
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1. Programme 307 words
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2. Map Workshop Programme 86 words
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3. Post Office (Monopoly) 107 words
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4. Shipbuilding 441 words
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5. Concorde 379 words
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6. Penistone 367 words
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7. Jarrow Slake (Reclamation) 93 words
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8. Yorkshire and Humberside 247 words
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9. Regional Development Grant (Wales) 176 words
15. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Grain Harvest 214 words
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2. Hill Farmers (Teesdale) 58 words
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3. Liquid Milk (Importation) 177 words
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4. Milk Deliveries 91 words
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5. Milk Consumption 100 words
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6. Liquid Milk (Importation) 347 words
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7. Family Income 113 words
16. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Gross Domestic Product 429 words
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2. Taxation 200 words
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3. Public Expenditure 227 words
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4. Value Added Tax 34 words
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5. European Community Budget (Grain Prices) 251 words
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6. Tobacco Duty 90 words
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7. Public Expenditure 175 words
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8. Income Tax 1,629 words
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9. Value Added Tax 374 words
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10. Stamp Duty 70 words
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11. Gratuities (Catering Staff) 47 words
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12. Retirement Bonus (Taxation) 69 words
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13. Business Loan Finance 170 words
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14. National Economic Forum 43 words
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15. Wealth Distribution 125 words
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17. Investment Income Surcharge 243 words
18. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Youth and Community Services 268 words
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2. Special Educational Treatment 110 words
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3. Youth Community Services 125 words
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4. Pupil Numbers 157 words
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5. Schools (Maintenance) 104 words
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6. Burnham Committee 174 words
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7. Gipsy Children 104 words
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8. Expenditure 207 words
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9. Further Education 158 words
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10. Schoolchildren (Employment) 265 words
19. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. De Lorean Motor Company 43 words
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2. Gaming Machines 245 words
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3. Financial Aid 121 words
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4. Perinatal and Infant Mortality 136 words
20. SCOTLAND
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1. Public Expenditure 510 words
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2. North-East of Scotland Development Association 88 words
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3. 1971 Census 223 words
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4. Drunken Driving 185 words
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5. Education Authorities (Spending) 120 words
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6. Moss Morran (Petro-chemical Project) 115 words
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7. Industry Act 1972 76 words
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21. Crime 82 words
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22. Unemployment (Ayrshire) 134 words
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23. St. Enoch Square, Glasgow 313 words
24. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Abortion 206 words
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2. Whooping Cough Vaccine 96 words
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3. Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority 97 words
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4. Ont-patients (Transport Costs) 176 words
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5. Benefits 748 words
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6. Psychiatric Patients (Coventry) 71 words
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7. Worthing Hospital 98 words
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8. Christmas Bonus 90 words
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9. Doctors (Emigration) 133 words
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10. Tinnitus 114 words
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11. National Health Service (Finance) 82 words
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12. Family Practitioner Committees 107 words
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13. Broadmoor (Visits) 48 words
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14. Supplementary Benefit 110 words
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15. Ancillary Staff (Pay Awards) 450 words
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16. Residential Care Order Legislation 50 words
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17. Population 252 words
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18. One-Parent Families 140 words
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19. Personal Social Services 797 words
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20. Persons Over 65 183 words
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21. Motor Industry Research Association 90 words
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22. Non-Means-Tested Benefits 55 words
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23. District Nurses (Cars) 187 words
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24. National Insurance (Hotel and Catering Workers) 120 words
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25. Long Term Benefits 142 words
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26. Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 477 words
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27. Finer Report 55 words
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28. Local Authority Services (Reductions) 272 words
25. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Radioactive Waste 181 words
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2. Hospital Admissions (Macclesfield) 1,239 words
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3. Japanese Seaweed 295 words
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4. Birmingham (Inner City Partnership) 66 words
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5. Rate Support Grant 96 words
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6. British Steel Corporation, Corby 134 words
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7. Milton Keynes (Railway Station) 80 words
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8. Housing (Statistics) 145 words
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9. Unfit Housing 124 words
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10. Exchequer and Rate Support Grant 354 words
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11. Compulsory Purchase 210 words
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12. "Save Our Shorelines" 76 words
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13. Housing Investment Programme 326 words
26. TRANSPORT
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1. A27/M27 (Worthing) 141 words
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2. Industrial Developments (Northern Region) 172 words
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3. Motor Cycles 302 words
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4. Dockland Southern Relief Road 258 words
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5. Test Regulations 34 words
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6. Roads Expenditure 324 words
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7. Motor Cars (Head Restraints) 71 words
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8. Second Tyne Tunnel 26 words
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9. Lorries 142 words
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10. Vehicle Excise Duty 47 words
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11. Headlight Use 58 words
27. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Civil Service Sports Council Ltd. 136 words
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2. Institution of Professional Civil Servants (Dispute) 138 words
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3. Recruitment 115 words
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4. Scientology 65 words

Lords Sitting of 24 July 1979 Series 5 Vol. 401

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1. Preamble 23 words
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2. LORD HARRIS OF HIGH CROSS 32 words
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3. BARONESS RYDER OF WARSAW 52 words
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4. MILLBANK HOSPITAL: FUTURE 528 words
cc1805-6
5. PROPOSED NEW BIRMINGHAM-OXFORD ROAD 334 words
cc1806-10
6. PAY AND PRODUCTIVITY: PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING 1,465 words
cc1810-5
7. PEERS AND LOBBY CORRESPONDENTS: IMPROVED CONTACTS 1,486 words
cc1815-21
8. GENEVA CONFERENCE ON INDO-CHINESE REFUGEES 2,426 words
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9. FINANCE BILL 51 words
cc1822-39
10. EDUCATION BILL 6,476 words, 1 division
cc1839-42
11. PNEUMOCONIOSIS, BYSSINOSIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES BENEFIT (AMENDMENT) SCHEME 1979 1,230 words
cc1843-8
12. NURSING QUALIFICATIONS (EEC RECOGNITION) ORDER 1979 2,114 words
cc1848-55
13. SOCIAL SECURITY (UNEMPLOYMENT, SICKNESS AND INVALIDITY BENEFIT) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1979 2,666 words
cc1856-61
14. NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT 1978 (AMENDMENT) ORDER 1979 2,088 words
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15. PREVENTION OF TERRORISM (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS ACT) 1976 (AMENDMENT) ORDER 1979 23 words
cc1862-74
16. APPROPRIATION (No. 2) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1979 4,909 words
cc1874-98
17. CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION BILL [H.L.] 8,510 words
cc1898-914
18. GIBRALTAR: BENEFITS OF EEC MEMBERSHIP 5,938 words
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19. HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICES 11 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 24 July 1979 Series 5 Vol. 401

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1. THE NATIONAL GALLERY: DEPLOYMENT OF EXHIBITS 70 words
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2. NEB: FUTURE ACQUISITIONS AND INVESTMENT 80 words
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3. NUCLEAR FUEL ASSEMBLIES: AIR CRASH CONSEQUENCES 159 words
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4. WATER CONSERVATION POLICY 211 words